Jesus Has Left The Building

Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. Download the printed notes to the lesson: The Books of Moses.

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. This lesson gives an introduction to the first five books of the Bible, the books of Moses. (Download accompanying printed notes)

One of the first things that Jesus did after He had risen from the dead, was teach two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself”. (v.27)

Imagine that you had to teach someone about Jesus, but all you had was the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. This is what Jesus and the early church used. In this study we will uncover the depth of what Jesus said in Matt. 22:45, “Moses wrote of me.”

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. This first lesson gives an introduction to the scriptures. (Download accompanying printed notes)

One of the first things that Jesus did after He had risen from the dead, was teach two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself”. (v.27)

Imagine that you had to teach someone about Jesus, but all you had was the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. This is what Jesus and the early church used. In this study we will uncover the depth of what Jesus said in Matt. 22:45, “Moses wrote of me.”

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. This first lesson gives an introduction to the scriptures. (Download accompanying printed notes)

One of the first things that Jesus did after He had risen from the dead, was teach two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself”. (v.27)

Imagine that you had to teach someone about Jesus, but all you had was the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. This is what Jesus and the early church used. In this study we will uncover the depth of what Jesus said in Matt. 22:45, “Moses wrote of me.”

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. This first lesson gives an introduction to the scriptures. (Download accompanying printed notes)

One of the first things that Jesus did after He had risen from the dead, was teach two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself”. (v.27)

Imagine that you had to teach someone about Jesus, but all you had was the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. This is what Jesus and the early church used. In this study we will uncover the depth of what Jesus said in Matt. 22:45, “Moses wrote of me.”

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament.  Download the printed notes to the first lesson: Introducing the Scriptures.

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Paul Vieira looks for Jesus in the pages of the Old Testament. This first lesson gives an introduction to the scriptures. (Download accompanying printed notes)

One of the first things that Jesus did after He had risen from the dead, was teach two of his disciples along the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself”. (v.27)

Imagine that you had to teach someone about Jesus, but all you had was the ancient Hebrew Scriptures. This is what Jesus and the early church used. In this study we will uncover the depth of what Jesus said in Matt. 22:45, “Moses wrote of me.”

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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.

All living things are complex.  If something has a simple structure, it is probably not alive.  I could easily draw the schematic of a chair or a house or a calculator.  Each one is more complex, but yet very simple compared to the human body.  This is also true of church form and activity.  If you can draw out your church life on a piece of paper and it’s the same every week, what you most likely have is something that is inorganic.  It’s not the real church.  In this chapter, you will see how nature organizes itself, painting a vivid picture of how God intended the church to be structured.

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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.

This is the first of the seven characteristics we examine in the church that Jesus started.  Amphibians are creatures that thrive only when they can move back and forth between land and water.  Using this metaphor, I explain that followers of Jesus too are amphibious.  We must live in two worlds: in community with other believers and out in the world with unbelievers.  Our health and survival as the church depends on this balance.

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Paul Vieira reads a selection from his book Jesus Has Left The Building.

This chapter seeks to introduce a vision of “church”, by going back to the root.  What was Jesus’ church like?  Church as we know it doesn’t go back far enough.  I’m not interested in “improvements” that Constantine brought to the church.  I want to go back past the early church fathers, or even the epistles of Paul.  I want to start with Jesus, and take it from there. I suspect that the future church will look more like the ancient church.  We must go back to go forward.

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